Hear Ye, Hear Ye...

announcement from the Head Zookeepers....

::ahem::

Our Christmas Surprise Cometh
(Lord willing)

Scheduled to arrive at the Zoo sometime around the second of September.
Full details below.





Details to answer all the WHAT'S?????

I know, I know..... How in the world could two overplanning, detail-people get surprised by something like a baby???

Well, I didn't think it was possible, but it is!

Before anybody thinks that this one is a total oops - he/she isn't! Jmk and I were talking about discussing the possibility of getting pregnant this summer. Especially because if we had another one, I sort of wanted to have a Spring baby, mostly so as not to be pregnant during the worst of the summer. But.... hey - at least I have all the maternity clothes already. The timing of the wee one is a surprise, but the baby is welcome, expected, and is causing a great deal of excitement already!

Poodle is, of course, seriously hoping for a girl. And is VERY excited. Tooter, who just learned to say "baby" hasn't exactly expressed an opinion yet.



Jmk was quite surprised at his Christmas eve present which was this picture of the family that was taken before he and I left for his office Christmas party. I took it, used the Paint program (which explains the, um, high-tech drawing) to draw the little swaddled bundle in his arms. Jmk's poor eyes got bigger than I thought they could get, he said "are you really", and then I think his face turned white. Needless to say, after less than a week of processing it all, he was ready to go. (I had already had my week of processing time when I first started feeling pregnant about a week and a half before I could even test).

Telling the family was SO much fun. We let Poodle do it. We'd put her on the phone, and she'd say "so-and-so, I have a surprise for you! It's a picture of such-and-such." (she really was drawing pictures for people). They would say "oh, that's so nice, thank you". Then she'd say "And today, it's all about the baby in Mommy's tummy!" (we didn't tell her what to say - just to tell the person on the phone about the baby).

And pretty much to a person, her statement was followed by a "WHAT?" (We had everyone on speaker phone). SueSue quickly followed her "what" with a "let me talk to your mother!" lol......
There was a lot of "what did you say? Poodle, say that again". My mom got squeal-y in octaves I didn't know she could hit. :-)

Yes - this was a surprise for everyone, but at the end of the day, we're all excited. As for me, I have been feeling good - almost no nausea this time. Some food aversion, some iffy stomach, and quite a bit of exhaustion. But practically no nausea. Of course, I have to keep telling myself that I don't have to be nauseous to have a healthy baby. And just because I was with the first two doesn't mean that I have to be with this one. I'll be very glad to have the Junior Miss season finished - it's wearing me out!

I'll be making some changes, of course. I'm putting the transcription work aside, because I need my free time to rest. And, when #3 gets here, I'm going to need any and all precious free time to not be filled with work. Plus, I'm not giving up my MK business, although it will remain very part-time, like it is now.

As always, I would so appreciate being remembered in your prayers - especially during the understandably tricky first trimester. And, since my precious father reads this blog, I won't go into the details regarding charting that some of you must be wondering about. But feel free to send me an email, if you're thinking that all this must mean charting doesn't work. lol.... I'll explain.